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How To Taste Wine

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How To Taste Wine

Learn how to taste wine like a pro, complete with all the swirling, sniffing and sipping you can handle. Learn to taste wine, and impress friends and family with your newly learnt skills. Learn how to taste wine like a pro, complete with all the swirling, sniffing and sipping you can handle. Learn to taste wine, and impress friends and family with your newly learnt skills.

Step 1: Pour It

Pour a small amount - approximately 2 ounces - of wine into the appropriate wine glass.

Step 2: Swirl It

Make small concentric circles with your glass to expose the wine to air, which will enhance its taste. For advanced tasters, swirl your wineglass in the air to aerate it.

Step 3: Smell It

Put your nose right into your wine glass to get the wine's full aroma. That's right, the nose into the glass. Inhale, and consider the wine's scents.

Step 4: Taste It

Take a sip of wine into your mouth, then gurgle it, inhaling while you do, to aerate the wine even further. If you're facing a long night of tasting, you may want to spit the wine out after this step. If not, drink up and enjoy!

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  1. Danwinx

    Dude (below), if you knew what it was about then you'd know it's not a "big show-off". I'm a waiter and have come across quite a number of corked bottles. A customer tastes it, says it's corked, sometimes you ask to taste it also to confirm and then replace the bottle. Besides, people spending a large sum on a bottle of fine wine want to fully experience its subtlities; and this is how you do that.

  2. Anonymous

    Tasting the wine at the dinner table seems like a big (unnecessary) show-off to me. Haven't seen anyone return a wine bottle after tasting, so whats the deal?

  3. djmimi

    Cool! Not only such a talented drummer/musician, but the guy knows the vino!! And he's one heck of a TV personality too!! Wow

  4. tattooyu

    As always Johnny Boots, you have the gift of gab...and the gift of garb...and the gift of GRAB! You are the best sommelier I know--okay the ONLY sommelier I know, but still the best!

  5. Anonymous

    JM YOU ROCK!!!

  6. Anonymous

    You will always be J Twinkles to me!

  7. Anonymous

    Very informative and beautifully explained. Super Power!

  8. Anonymous

    i always wanted to know how to do this but afraid to look like a moron. thank you.